The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

“Is that why the church of Rome accuses all its adversaries of heresy?” “That is why, and that is also why it recognizes as orthodoxy any heresy it can bring back under its own control or must accept because the heresy has become too strong.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.